Why You Should Have An Annual Boiler Service

The annual boiler service is an extremely important job that's best done in the warmer months of the year, but did you know around 90% folks do not have the boiler serviced.

The boiler for reasons uknown seems to get forgotten until something happens, you head to have a shower and discover you have no hot water. Then you start to panic looking for someone to repair the boiler.

So why is the annual boiler service important?

11 years back the high efficiency-condensing boiler became compulsory in britain.

With the boilers before condensing it had been not as important to have them serviced since it is now. The reason is that the boilers then did not have so many parts inside because they do in the current condensing boilers, yes they went wrong but were a lot easier and cheaper to correct, although it has always been a recommendation by the boiler makers to really have the boiler and any gas appliance serviced annually.

It's more important now than previously to have an annual boiler service and the boiler checked over to make sure it really is performing as ought to be, and most important that it is SAFE.

With an annual boiler service the most important checks is the flue pipe, it has to be checked to make sure all joints and seals are not leaking carbon monoxide or products of combustion into the room the boiler is located in.

The high efficiency or condensing boilers as they are known while running produce condense, this is an acidic water, because it is acidic, it could start to corrode the flue-pipe, and should this happen the flue will begin to leak products of combustion (carbon monoxide), which once we all know can be quite dangerous to life, this is probably the most important parts of the service.

Gas Engineer South London condensing boilers have a condense trap built-in, this must be washed and checked for leakage it's also section of the boilers flue system.

Once the boiler is running the water it produces cleans the combustion chamber of any residue which results in the trap.

With many boilers of today they work under ruthless and also have an expansion vessel connected to the pipe work, this can be either internally or externally.

The expansion vessel will as time passes will lose pressure and will ought to be recharged to keep the boiler attempting to it's full efficiently.

The expansion vessel is really a very important area of the annual boiler service that needs to be checked. After the vessel loses the charge it puts pressure on the pump, the internal water parts and the complete O rings within the boiler.

Maybe you have noticed when your boiler is running that the pressure gauge either fitted on the boiler or on external pipe starts to rise then when the boiler cools down the pressure drops down to zero. You may even have noticed that the discharge pipe or overflow pipe as some people call it, is showing signs of water discharge. Assuming you have then that is normally a sign that the expansion vessel has lost its charge.

The main annual boiler service is to check the boiler combustion rate.

This is to make sure the boiler is burning gas since it was designed for, this is carried out utilizing a flue gas analyser that is inserted in to the flue-pipe and a reading is taken, if the readings are within the boilers recommendations then no further action is required, if the readings are out from the recommendations then further investigations are essential to get the problem.

With the old type of boiler the burners were removed and the flue-ways were cleaned and checked, but with the condensing boiler the flue-gas reading tells us when the burners need to be removed. Actually Vaillant boilers now say the burners may will never need to be removed if the boiler is established and maintained properly, they once suggested that the burners be removed every five years.

Having an annual boiler service they are just some of the checks that need to be carried out, and because many boilers now include long warranties, to help keep the boiler warranty valid you must have an annual boiler service. Once the service has been completed, then the engineer must date and sign the warranty booklet to keep the warranty valid.

I have spoken to many customers with long boiler warranties, and for reasons uknown they seem to think they don't need an annual boiler service as a result of long warranty. This is simply not so, you must keep up with the annual boiler service otherwise, should you need to generate a claim beneath the warranty you might find you will have a large repair bill, all because you failed to continue the annual boiler service.

One last thing before we finish, remember that any form of gas work, be it fitting your brand-new cooker, the annual boiler service whatever it could be has to be completed by way of a Gas Safe Registered person. If they are not gas safe registered then you will have no warranty on the boiler & most important you will find your home insurance also becomes void should something happen.

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Pub: 21 Dec 2023 02:24 UTC
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